"secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".

> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
> gpg: skipped `Gary Yang <gyang@linux123.(none)>': secret key not available
> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
> error: gpg failed to sign the tag
> fatal: unable to sign the tag
> 
> I ran "gpg --gen-key" and generated keypair. But, still got the same
> error. Please help.

> 
> You need to tell git who you are, since it is unable to deduce it from
> doing host lookups. Try:
> 
>   git config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com
> 
> or whatever email address you used when you created the key, and then
> gpg should find it appropriately.

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
> To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> Cc: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@yahoo.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 4:16 PM
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> > 
> > You need to tell git who you are, since it is unable
> to deduce it from
> > doing host lookups. Try:
> > 
> >   git config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com
> > 
> > or whatever email address you used when you created
> the key, and then
> > gpg should find it appropriately.
> 
> Side note: sometimes you might want to use a different key
> than the one 
> you use for authorship. Then you can use
> 
> 	[user]
> 		SigningKey = key
> 
> (or "git config user.signingkey xyz" if you
> don't want to edit the 
> config file manually). 
> 
> This can be especially useful if you use different keys for
> different 
> projects, even if you want to be known under the same name
> in both. Or 
> because you want to have the local hostname in your commit
> logs, but your 
> gpg key is using some externally visible
> "official" email address.
> 
> 			Linus

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
> To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> Cc: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@yahoo.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 4:16 PM
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> > 
> > You need to tell git who you are, since it is unable
> to deduce it from
> > doing host lookups. Try:
> > 
> >   git config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com
> > 
> > or whatever email address you used when you created
> the key, and then
> > gpg should find it appropriately.
> 
> Side note: sometimes you might want to use a different key
> than the one 
> you use for authorship. Then you can use
> 
> 	[user]
> 		SigningKey = key
> 
> (or "git config user.signingkey xyz" if you
> don't want to edit the 
> config file manually). 
> 
> This can be especially useful if you use different keys for
> different 
> projects, even if you want to be known under the same name
> in both. Or 
> because you want to have the local hostname in your commit
> logs, but your 
> gpg key is using some externally visible
> "official" email address.
> 
> 			Linus

> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
> To: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 7:57 PM
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:28:44PM -0800, Gary Yang wrote:
> 
> > I got errors and warnings when I used "git tag -s
> my-tag". It says,
> > "secret key not available". "unable to
> sign the tag". 
> 
> Probably because it can't find your secret key, like it
> says.
> 
> > gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more
> information
> > gpg: skipped `Gary Yang
> <gyang@linux123.(none)>': secret key not available
> > gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
> > error: gpg failed to sign the tag
> > fatal: unable to sign the tag
> > 
> > I ran "gpg --gen-key" and generated keypair.
> But, still got the same
> > error. Please help.
> 
> Did the key you generated have the email address
> "gyang@linux123.(none)"? If not, then that is
> your problem.
> 
> You need to tell git who you are, since it is unable to
> deduce it from
> doing host lookups. Try:
> 
>   git config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com
> 
> or whatever email address you used when you created the
> key, and then
> gpg should find it appropriately.
> 
> -Peff
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> gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
> gpg: skipped `Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>': secret key not available
> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available